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As Americans, I believe we reject communism because it historically has allowed a tiny group of people to consolidate complete control over national resources (including people), in the process stifling competition, freedom and choice. It leaves its citizens stagnating under the perpetual broken systems with no natural motivation to innovate, improve services or reduce costs.
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And to be fair, as we've seen, it ain't just the Republicans who've allowed this "socialism for the wealthy" to get so out of hand. We've come to understand quite well that our guy in the White House has no qualms about giving in to the wealthy and the corporations.
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And yet today we find ourselves as a country in two distinctly different categories: those who are forced to compete tooth and nail each day to provide value to society in return for income for ourselves and our families and those who would instead use our lawmaking apparatus to help themselves to our tax money and/or to protect themselves from true competition.
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They are the same people who wave the "free market" flag around when we demand a little regulation so we're not poisoned by our food, air, or water. The same people who created "too big to fail" and reached deeply into our pockets to subsidize their losses. The same people who nickel and dime us when we try to fly somewhere, yet are the first in line for government handouts when their business model is worth shit.
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Unfortunately, they use our wealth and laws not only to benefit their outdated, failed companies, but also spend a small pittance of their ill-gotten gains lobbying and favor-trading with politicians so the government will continue to protect them from competition and their well-deserved failure.
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I urge you to read the rest of the stuff between the quotes.
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